Hi Margarita, On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 11:13:57AM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > On 1/28/07, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Due to continued problems with "Slashdot effect" I've moved this > >temporarily > >to gluck (http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ now redirects automaticaly). > > Is "goodbye-microsoft" really the better name for this? I understand > that it can be funny. But: > > 1) It's aggressive
I don't think it is. Agressive would be something like "Ditch the crap out of your computer and get a real OS". There's nothing wrong with advertising as long as it's not insulting (they do the same, remember the commercial with penguins and all that?). > 2) It does not say anything about debian I believe if the domain name stays neutral it'll have more chances to attract non-debian members of the free software community that will use it for advocacy. And at the end, there's only Debian ;) > 3) You might even be accused of trademark infringement Trademarks don't work like this. Infringement would be to use the trademarked to *refer* to my product. Since my product is clearly referred to as "Debian-Installer Loader", there's no chance it can be confused with a Microsoft product. > 4) the .com at the end is misleading Yes, but unfortunately .com extension has lost all its meaning nowadays. I opted for .com because that makes it easier to remember. > However, I like the installer for windows idea. Thus, I propose to > change this into non-aggressive, non-microsoft, debian name as in: > > * get-debian.org (This could even be get.debian.org and be the > official d-i, g-i, w-d-i page) > * automatic-debian.org > * dive-into-debian.org > * plug-into-debian.org > * startup-debian.org > * debian-for-newbies.org > * debian-for-windows.org > * etc, etc, etc > > I don't know if using "for windows" is trademark infrigement. It probably > is :-\ If you want register any of these domain names, feel free to. Just let me know so that I can add it to my apache configuration. There's nothing wrong with the same site having multiple names :-) Note, however, that using get.debian.org would imply this is an official Debian project, which is not (yet) the case. I intend to integrate it in the distribution post-etch, though. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
